The Guardian: G2

Wednesday 30 August 2006

Comment & features p2

Anna Pickard: Madonna and her theme-park-Cockney-gangster beau Guy Ritchie, the word from within the Pneumaticockney household is that everything is just fine - great, in fact. And to ensure that it remains so, they have created what one magazine calls a "romance-boosting action plan", or, as we'll know it, a spousal spreadsheet, or "rumpy-rota".

Comment & features p5

Marcel Berlins: It's possible that the socialist establishment will have the courage to see that Royal is their only possible presidential winner, and agree to make her their candidate, without a fight. Otherwise there will be a messy internal election, some man or other will be chosen to represent the left, and Sarkozy will be the next president of France.

Comment & features p6

Michele Hanson is 64 and has wrinkles - lots of them. Which she wouldn't mind so much, except that celebrities almost the same age as her look about 30 these days. As Charlie's Angels appear on the Emmy awards red carpet looking remarkably youthful, she asks: surely it's time women stopped running away from old age?

G2 Comment & features p10

It's an issue that divides households: half of us throw out food that's a minute past its sell-by date, while the other half happily wolf it down weeks later. So how important are those dates? Aida Edemariam investigates.

Comment & features p12

Over 70? Feel sidelined by the increasingly youth-dominated media? If so, how do you fancy editing G2 for a day? It's a great opportunity, says David McKie, aged 71, to put your money where your mouth is.

Comment & features p36

Lucy Mangan: If I have read the annual reports right - it is possible to gain veritable fistfuls of A-levels, GCSEs and assorted other qualifications without having to demonstrate more intellectual ability or application than a monkey chasing a nut around the jungle floor.

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